.

“Walk with me.”

“I can’t.”

“Try.”

“You are beyond my reach.”

“I am you!”

“I can’t.”

“Listen, I want you to listen carefully now.  They…are you, a part of you.  Your torturers are you.  He who murders you is none other than your own will made manifest, and God’s will executed.  How else do you wish to exit?”

“I don’t understand!  Make them stop!”

“Take a deep breath…  I’m with you!  They’re torturing you; I can feel your agony.

But I ask you to turn your other cheek.  Bless them.  Love them as they pierce your flesh with their probes, as they lacerate you…  Embrace them as they insult you.  Savor them as they devour you…”

“I cannot!  What you’re asking of me goes against everything I hold to be true.  I am mortal, and frightened, and feel pain –“

“And feel love… Let go of this illusion of duality, it no longer makes any sense.

You’re being silent…

All I’m asking you is to…love your enemy with all your heart and embrace him even as he mortally betrays you.

Remember, two become one to make three.  Conception bears witness to epic metamorphosis culminating to death from the womb, birthed into material world, and eventually through the tomb where birthed yet again.”

“What about love?  Shouldn’t I have regret for lost love?”

“It’s written in your destiny.  Love is the highest achievement of your will.

Love… It’s eternal, never lost.”

-Iliad Terra

adapted from the poster for "Inception"

In 1943 Ayn Rand wrote The Fountainhead. Incidentally, Ayn was born in 1905 in St. Petersburg to a bourgeois family — an irrelevant piece of information?  Perhaps.

Ayn also founded the Ayn Rand Institute, which impacted social dynamics in this country, as well as globally, with noted current leaders raised under her influence.

The ideas discussed in The Fountainhead, as embodied in its leading character, John Galt, are still relevant to the core of architectural principles, perhaps even more so today than in the 1950’s.

Atelier 8 is pleased to launch Quantum Architecture, a blend of Ayn’s ideas mixed with Jeffersonian and Masonic principles, but with a Quantum understanding of the underlying implications, laced with anticipation of new emergent paradigms.

I’m further pleased to write this blog, immensely inspired by Valya, a uniquely brilliant and dear friend, also from Russia, although born to royal bloodline, and bred to refinement…um another piece of insignificant detail?  Perhaps not…

So Bryan calls me around 1700 hrs:  “Iliad, it’s gotta be — it hit me last night — it’s gotta be about an ‘architecture with purpose’…  just throwing it out there for you.”

“Thanks B!”

Here it goes:

Quantum Architecture

What is Quantum Architecture?

It’s architecture for new consciousness,

Architecture that embraces a non-hierarchical social structure, yet is responsive to currency control and management of said structures.

It’s design for new fluid spatial dynamics.

It’s design for new social paradigms based on multiplicity of nodal points in 3^rd and 4^th dimensional matrices, and beyond.

And it’s about designs that construct with the latest material syntax, fully cognizant of molecular relevance of matter in the design of space and form.

Quantum Architecture harnesses the power of thought,

And designs structures that are conduits of energy, symbiotically sympathetic exoskeletal projections of thought.

It’s architecture that regards buildings as integrated and dynamic social machines,

And designs organic structures that become extensions of the occupant organism, responsive and “Intelligent” partners in living patterns.

We have for a long while been building broken castles in the sky with old adages:  form follows function…  but what is function?  a singular static purpose? or a pluralistic language of purposes?

The political and moral fabrics of yesteryear are ripping at the seams, and their sponsoring patterns are failing to answer current needs.

It’s time to embrace a new language.  And so these are the underlying ideas that will generate our new urban and civil forms.

Atelier 8’s Delta-3, a visionary group of three knights, will act as vanguard of this new direction in design and integrated social systems.

I’m truly delighted that the Delta-3 has been brought together by a quantum leap of faith…

-Iliad Alexander Terra

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Slowly

I awoke

To a summer’s night,

And

Found

That the day

Was gone.

I looked up

And the sky

Was filled

With a thousand

Stars.

Each

Spoke a jewel

As they coalesced

To reveal

Your face.

And so I reached up

And grabbed

Your brilliance,

Drank your truth.

But it was a lie.

It was the

Space between

That mattered.

It was what was

Not said

That defined you.

So I closed my eyes

And went back

To sleep

Where the day’s

Reflection

Filled me with want.

I celebrated

Your dance

Of life

And death,

And the trajectory

Of your action

Through the sinews

Of the hanging

Tapestry.

Hecatomb of desire,

Torn asunder

As you dart through

The branches

Of Yggdrasil.

Pure stream

Of conscious

Light filaments.

I look past

Your flesh

To the visage

Of your passion,

To the countenance

Of your actions.

It’s a funny little insidious secret that seduces with a full bouquet of guilt and misguided ideas.

A funny little secret that rips the flesh off your bones and wraps your identity around your neck like a noose and hangs you from the rafters of the cathedral of your delusions.

I can see you swaying to the winds of hope, hanging by the rope, singing the same old tune.

A rope made with your own misbegotten dope.

This secret creeps on you like wildfire through the chambers of your will…

And renders the world as you imagine it.

But what do you imagine?

Alas…

You have one last chance, this is the moment of your epiphany.

You have brought me here… so close your eyes, and choose…

Choose to rearrange your projection, recreate your mental atmosphere and populate it with your will to radiate.

At the nexus of the quantum matrix of infinite probabilities you can choose to drink the poison lullabies,

Or,

See yourself in your cosmic context, hurtling through the flux of space-time static continuum, chanting the symphony of a thousand stars, giving birth to radiant rivers of light, dancing like a lunArtic sophist, barefooted, through the asp-strewn catacombs of Angkor Watt, while the rhythm and vibrations of a Thousand-and-One projections merge and bubble and burst through the concrete and steel towers of your world, and explode into screaming whispers…

Wake up!

-IAT

We’re moving from the 12th

To the 13th.

Don’t ask, I won’t tell…

No, reiki and qigong

Are only part… stepping stones…

Here’s why…

Only true death, diving through the subconscious unto the unconscious while fully conscious,

A quantum leap,

Right through the outer chakras, will suffice.

The path of the warrior is brilliant, radiant, like a dagger buried deep in the snow,

Cutting along the axial shift…

Slicing the advent of Aquarius…

We shall raise an army of light to wage the epic battle.

…Or is it Ophiucus…

Grrrrrrr….

-IAT